The majority of the focus through history has been on the humanistic form, and the concentration of this paper will be on that. Art was the first written language and to study the history of art is to study the history of civilizations and humankind. The Paleolithic cave paintings in France, when vi...

There were many sculptors that had great talent during the Renaissance. Perhaps one of the most famous one was Donatello. Donatello made numerous sculptures out of bronze and marble. The bronze statue of David was one of his more interesting works The bronze statue of David interests me because ...

The term Renaissance art draws to mind feelings of a rebirth, a reincarnation of artistic expression in a sense. For Donatello though, living amongst such a time period did not seem to skew his artistic grandeur. In creating his sculptural rendition of the biblical character David, he employed clas...